Arearea

Film #9 · 2:41 · 2026 · 23 shots · English · 16:9 · stereo · 1080p master

A woman who will not whiten, a witness who is not a lover, and an island that sells everything, even a tear, by the lot.

Synopsis

Kira and Ule stand apart before a bare gallery wall where Paradise should hang. She kisses the frost on a window, floats on black water and goes under, wakes, and finds her reflection living a different hour in the mirror.

On the jetty Jean-Marc Dupont walks in with Mila, the face of a Saint Laurent campaign, his palm on her waist like a lot with a pre-sale estimate. A storm, an emerald clasp, a cage built for two, a tear that falls and becomes an auction lot. Salt on Ule’s skin like maps of countries that don’t exist. Not a lover. A witness. It ends on black volcanic sand: “I will not whiten.”

Adult in mood, never explicit. On screen and in the voice: English. Every stanza is the poet’s own English, unchanged. Each fragment opens in the vault.

Fragments in the film

Credits

Fragments, direction, edit: Kira Velerevich (Elena Revicheva)
Characters: Kira; Ule, a Norwegian collector; Mila and Jean-Marc
Image: Keyframes from the cast’s reference portraits: Seedream v5 Pro, GPT Image, Nano Banana Pro, Grok Imagine (Venice)
Motion: Kling O3 Pro (Venice) · one shot by Luma
Voice: OpenAI tts-1 (onyx), the studio’s narrator
Music: “Basement” — an original track generated for the film with ElevenLabs Music
Text and glitch: Every stanza whole, in the poet’s words, typed into a PowerShell session with the voice (Get-Content .\fragments\NNN.txt, the number of the fragment it comes from); a glitch that tears across every shot

Watch the film The vault: 99 fragments Artist portfolio